Judy offered "to explain, by means of a recap. Didier gave reasons why the US should vote Bush out. You replied by giving a reason, of a different kind, why the French should vote Chirac out. I then posted giving yet another kind of reason why the US should vote Bush out." _____ And of course Judy is right to do so. There are lots of (internal US) reasons for voting Bush back to Crawford: the Patriot Act and the possibility of Patriot Act II, his supply-side tax cuts during war time, the Republican party's morbid monopoly in public forums, his environmental record, his job outsourcing policies, his Christian agenda, his lack of bipartisanship in framing legislation, and the prospect of his appointing Supreme Court justices who would carry his "values" forward for decades. There are also lots of international reasons to vote Bush to oblivion. But why stop there? Many nations need to clean house. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html